That slain gangster Nayeemuddin had ‘friends’ from the lower to top rungs in Police Department is known to many, but even the latter are not aware that he had equally ‘good informants’ in other government wings as well.
It is this secret network of informants from Nalgonda government wings that helped the gangster’s associates escape from police when the Preventive Detention Act was invoked against them. Bhongir police had moved the proposal to invoke PD Act against Nayeem’s accomplices Pasham Srinivas and others in February this year.
In police commissionerates, permission is granted for such moves in less than a week. In districts, however, the consent has to come from the collectorate concerned. “We know how the proposal got delayed and who were behind it, but finally permission came in April,” a police officer unwilling to be named said.
Police were prepared to pick up Nayeem’s associates as soon as the official order came out and were keeping a tab on them. On that particular day, Nayeem’s supporter S. Sudhakar, Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituency (ZPTC) member of Nalgonda — against whom PD Act proposal was moved — was in Nalgonda district headquarter attending a ZP meeting.
“Till 4 p.m., he was in the ZP meeting. Somehow, the news leaked that permission was granted for invoking PD Act against him and Pasham Srinivas. Within an hour, they disappeared and went underground,” a top police officer said. The officer said even he was uncomfortable to speak before his own subordinates about developments relating to Nayeem because there was possibility of information reaching the latter somehow.
